On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:18:58 AM UTC, Martin Albrecht wrote: >> >> It uses the "Student-t" method to estimate the certainty > > This is precisely what the python documentation warns about (see Nils' > post). The timings are not normal distributed. Especially if your code is > deterministic its much more sensible to look at the min than to unleash > normal distribution theory.
At least since we're mathematically savvy, we know that there's a lot more to statistics than the normal distribution. Having never seen any timing distributions (since they are hidden by timeit), I don't even know anything about how timings are distributed in practice. I wouldn't mind seeing a frequency histogram or trying tests like Kolmogorov–Smirnov to decide for myself... -- william William -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
